CyberSecurity requires the effective identification of risks and efficient implementation of controls designed to mitigate those risks. The efficient design and architecture of integrated control frameworks is crucial to limiting the potential negative impact on agility and competitiveness of many organizations. Continue reading
The Way We Are
This is a question that is very difficult to answer. I therefore askl for your comments as stakeholders in a risk management-oriented magazine.
ISO’s 2013 survey’s figures are not very clear to me: on their website they show figures here and there but there’s really no clear picture of how ISO’s standards impact certifications or move the market. Continue reading
In its best practices report, Enterprise Risk Management: Seven Imperatives for Process Excellence, APQC presents the results of research on the need to evolve enterprise risk management (ERM) processes and practices.
As a result of its survey findings and interviews with ERM leaders known for developing select best practices, APQC finds that there are three stages of ERM process maturity that span seven best practices. The stages of maturity are:
In the last blog I vented my most annoying compliance issue. This week I thought I would switch gears to my most amusing and embarrassing Quality moments.
There are three that are so vivid that it’s as if they happened yesterday.
For years, international worker rights organizations have known that there was a need to provide structure and training for factory owners and Bangladesh’s most vulnerable workers. With a spotlight shining on 4,000 factories in crisis in Dhaka and after 1,100 deaths in the fall of Rana Plaza, the time for implementing such a program has never felt more critical. I chat with Amy Luinestra about the Better Work program recently implemented in Bangladesh by the International Labour Organization.
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